Chicago 312: A New Day for Chicago's Parking Meters
This week: the parking meter deal, where sanctuary runs out, and how to use your legally mandated public comment at government meetings most effectively.
Policy in theory v. policy in practice: who regulates a funeral home, $24,000 in unpaid daycare wages, and an ICE-contractor order that can't cancel an ICE contract.
The alderman who wrote Chicago's data center incentives is calling the mayor a stunt artist for regulating them — while 142,000 households sit in the dark.
CPS bets payroll on Springfield, the meter deal hits its final weeks, ICE On Notice turns out to be neither, and the left has more than one candidate for mayor.
Chicago 312: The State Budget in the Era of Trillionaires
This Week's 312: the attempted return of the Zombie Snap Curfew, the Illinois state budget, taxing the rich (or at least starting with social media companies), and more.
Chicago 312: Pay No Attention to the Water Bills Behind the Curtain
A data center stole 30 million gallons of water, the Obama Center's anti-displacement ordinance was never used once, and Geneva is about to decide whether your boss can keep calling itself an algorithm.
This week: Walgreens closes another South Side location, Ken Griffin is mad at Mamdani for the same reasons he supposedly left Chicago, and data centers aren’t a real revenue solution.
Chicago 312: It's Not Just A Newsletter -- It's a Newsletter About Eileen O'Neill Burke Refusing to Investigate Federal Agents
This week: the Feds egged on Midway Blitz, the Doom of the Clipping Economy, Democrats found a platform, and Springfield's about to let the millionaires tax die.
